Turns out there is NOT a financial/trade systems mailing list.But based on the number of admins interested in joining such a list,I decided to create one following the Question/SUMMARY response model of this list.To subscribe to the list send a message with "subscribe" in the body ...

Firstly I would like to thank everyone who responded,Justin Young <justin@mesun12.engr.subr.edu>Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan)sweh@mpn.com (Stephen Harris)Phil Howle <howlep@stp.xfi.bp.com>Bill Reed <reedwv@stp.xfi.bp.com>Brad Young <bbyoung@amoco.com>Fedor ...

Many thanks to Casper Dik, Hermann Kuhn, Thomas Anders, Robert G.Ferrell, Jeff Graham.The consensus is that this is a bug of the cgsix driver. Install patch105492-01, and this patch can be found on Sunsolve version 3.0.6(December 1997). After applying the patch, i didn't face the problem ...

Thanks to the following people who responded:"ganeshan" <ganeshan@gcs.com.au>Bunny Pfau <bunny@hao.ucar.edu>sunsrv@blr.cmc.net.inAlthough Bunny Pfau was the only one who confirmed my suspicions, my management made the decision to apply patch 106561-08 (and all its ...

My original question:>Was wondering if anyone had some pointers on distributing config files>(nsswitch.conf, auto_direct, etc.) across about 200 hosts.>There are no .rhosts files on any accounts (security reasons). This rules>out rdist and rcp which is what I have used in the past. ...

Well, I said it was dumb. Here I was trying to screw around with NFS, and NFS had nothing to do with it.Solution, with thanks to Nathan Dietsch and Arthur Darren Dunham, is:# umount /export/home<change /export/home to /lyris in /etc/vfstab># mkdir /lyris# mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 /lyrisThe ...

Folks,Thanks to everyone who responded.Brad Young <bbyoung@amoco.com>bidwell@andrews.edu (Daniel R. Bidwell)werneck@netway.com.br (Paulo Roberto Werneck de Capistrano)Michael Wright ED23 <michael@morticia.msfc.nasa.gov>Robert Fulwiler <bobf@psa.pencom.com>scott hollatz ...

Hi all Thanks for the responses.I used etherman -I hme0 and it works great.Including the actual query ..> Hi..> > Many are asking me to check the interface.> I think many are taking the question in a different way.> > My system is having hme0 and not le0.> > What i ...

Sorry about the previous email. I hit the wrong buttonduring editing.Everyone is telling me to user winzip.Also a program call Cygwin at http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ is popular.Thanks> On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 12:16:26PM -0700, Matthew> Cai wrote:> > > > Sorry, not a sun ...

Original Post:A couple of questions regarding port monitors:1. When and where does the default ttymon port monitor, zsmon, get createdin Solaris 2.X.2. If one of the serial ports gets reconfigured for, lets say, a modem, butthen the port needs to be restored to its default configuration, what ...

***************Original question:It happens frequently that after somebody has used the cdrom drivein a Ultra/Solaris 2.5, trying ti eject the cd gets the message/cdrom: device busyIt is not a matter of a user logged in /cdrom; some process is using it. Thequestion is:Is there a command that ...

Original question:Does anyone know I can see all of the machine name that is ouput in the third column of the command "last".Example of the output:boudreau pts/13 cleopatre.pasteu Fri Apr 12 08:16 - 08:22 (00:06) I know the data is kept in /var/adm/wtmpx but is not really ...

Sorry for the late summary. My original question was: What's this panic: ufs_putapage: bn == UFS_HOLE mean?Thanks to Kevin SheehanGlenn SatchellSteve PhelpsUmesh Vaghela andBirger A. Wathne for their help replies.Kevein Sheehan summarised what it means:UFS files are allowed to be sparse, which ...

Hi all !Thanks to everyone who replied.The resolution to the problem appears to have been ......We have only just noticed (doh !) that the disks differed slightly3. c0t10d0 <SEAGATE-ST336704LC-0002 cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 12 sec ...

Apparently it was a problem with the drives termination.thanks to chad price          rogerio rocha          michael j. connollyThe external port was not terminated. Putting a terminator on ...

thanks to casper dik for the quick response.<p><p><em>>>It's a harmless message which happens when you use NFSv3.<br></em><p><em>>><br></em><p><em>>><br></em><p><em>>><br></em><p><em>>>The message was removed in 2.6.<br></em><br>

This is going to be short as it is very simple, the only reason I am postingthis at all is that a number of people asked how I tracked the people back.I simply used the authoritative dns servers for the machines in question.then mailed abuse@<domain> for those domains.For example (since ...

Original question:> I've been working with some filesystems using ST15230W drives, and have a> question regarding the -r flag of newfs.> > The 15230W's have a rotational speed of 5400 RPM, while the default> rotational speed setting of newfs is 3600 RPM. My question is, does ...

Thanks to Glenn Satchell, Milt Webb and others who have sent methe answer but the mail is still on the way for taking the time to help me.The answer is:Set up a printer class and assign it to all the printers of the queue.Specify the class as the destination when printing.The question is:> ...

The following are some of the sites which the SAs responded with. I learnt thatthere is a nice utility called wget on the web, which I downloaded and compiled.I have listed out that one ...

Problem continues,An intermediate summary;I increased the max threads in kernel ( /etc/system:nfs:nfs3_max_threads=64 ) and in /etc/init.d/nfs.server: nfsd -a 256(Thomas & Greg & Casper ) Now the server is more efficient ;-)However,Casper, recommended me to use truss/pstack on this ...

Hello,original question:> i've a dual homed firewall-1 on a sun system. Cause my backbone is based on> a virtual LAN System I have to group thess two interfaces into two different> VLAN's. Therefor I need two different MAC Adresses for the two different> Interfaces. I know 'bout ...

Thanks for Ric Anderson and Casper Dik.Original Question:>I was looking at /var/adm/messages, and the follow message appeared to>me:>>Apr 14 08:49:30 named[107]: rt_malloc: memdebug overflow>Apr 14 08:56:00 last message repeated 563 timesAnswer:> The solaris FAQ says:> ...

I wrote:>something is not correct in my configuration, it seems.>>i try to print on HP4000 in duplex mode... it doesn t work for sun clients on my network.The response was given by Andrew.Scrivner@colorado.eduIt consists to do a hack in ...

    My original question was:"Hi Managers,        Could somebody throw light on how to get rid of nis+ configured ona Solaris 2.5.1 server as a master server and Solaris 2.5.1 machinesconfigured as clients completely ? What files ...

Folks,Thanks for all you help. I should have said that I was trying to boot adataless client.Three approaches were suggested. The first was that the router could help, bybroadcasting a default route using RIP,or by acting as a proxy arp server.I've passed these suggestions on to our ...

          First off let me apologize for my Freudian slip, it is Inexpensive not      Independent.          It was pointed out that my statement regarding needing to ...

Hi all,Thanks to all that replied. Here is a summary of the responses I had onchanging my host's name and IP.The supported way is using sys-unconfig. This requires a reboot and thenputting in the new hosts information. This is probably not a good idea forNIS or NIS+ masters.Several ...

Here's my original question:>Im running solaris 2.6 on an old Sun Sparc IPX, does anyone know where I>can get hold of a serial cable in order to connect up a modem to it?>It has a strange din type connector on the back instead of the usual 9 pin>connector.Many thanks to everyone ...

Many thanks to all those who responded.The answer is to use the psradm command toi toggle theprocessors on and off after boot.ThanksPete Hogan__________________________________________________Do You Yahoo!?Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! ...

SOLUTION: (courtesy of Michael Sullivan)Running the followin (as root) fixed the problem:  /etc/init.d/dtlogin update_printersORIGINAL PROBLEM:> Running CDE on a solaris 2.5.1 machine and viewing a postscript> file with image-viewer; I get the following error when I try> to ...

Original question:Does anyone know I can see all of the machine name that is ouput in the third column of the command "last".Example of the output:boudreau pts/13 cleopatre.pasteu Fri Apr 12 08:16 - 08:22 (00:06) I know the data is kept in /var/adm/wtmpx but is not really ...

>We have a number of people connecting thru ISPs via secure shell. Some of>the ISPs use DHCP so the sshd_config AllowHosts wont do us much good.>Is there some way to set up authentication for these machines? Can>Radius do this?Thanks ...

Thanks to all who replied, I appreciate you taking the time to write. All responses are at the end of the message. We are replacing the tape drive, as all indications point to a bad unit.Greg WeingartSystems AdministratorArray ...

Many thanks to:Richard FelkinsBrooke KingVincent LescoeEddy FafardParks FieldsMatthew StierChristophe ColleMartin OksnevadShouben Zhouand probably others....Before I give the "solution" to the problem, you must understand our network (Heck, I don't understand it but I'll try to ...

I asked about what patchadd was doing to fill my root filesystem. While I did get enough information to answer my questions, I am sorry I left out a few details that might have made it much easier to answer them:1. The OS is Solaris 2.6 (some guessed from my reference to patchadd rather than ...

Thanks for all the great responses. Theres a beer for you in Los Angeles. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------celeste@stokely.com says:You've got a few choices - modify the console server (if it can be), modify the Sun. We have all we have ...

I LOVE THIS, IT IS SO COOL!!! I can't believe how many responded tomy message. I obviously am the only sys adm on the planet whodidn't know this, so my summary will be very brief. I can not beginto name all the folks who helped but thanks to all of you.The answer is to simply use the no ...

One reply by David Horowitz did it all.Original question:I have just freshly installed Solaris 7 on a Sparc 20 with type 5 Sunkeyboard.But some of keys such as arrows in vi or Back Space in dtmail, etc..don't work at all.The problem was my XKEYSYMDB env. var. which was pointing to a ...

Here is the original question:*******************************************************>From clg Mon Apr 29 10:07:40 1996To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.govSubject: X Access with SUingWhen I create a new account I su - to that user and then I needto run an X application. It looks like since I ...

Many Thanks go out to:Patrick Hawley [phawley@envision.com]Colin_Melville@mastercard.comFor their prompt replies...Here is the original Post:Are there any significant differences between a SPARC5 and SPARC20 runningSunOS 4.1.4.We are running SPARC20's on SunOS 4.1.4 and are about to get SPARC ...

A while back I asked if I could replace my Sun Mouse with a PC Trackball.After taking a close look at the responses, the Sun Interface Converter andthe mice in question, it seems that the major problem in using a PC mouseis that the connectors are significantly different. Voltage levels may ...

Bruce broke it down the best !! max@trega.comchad.rytting@logio.comadd@netcom.comdaevans@us.oracle.comisdfgbrz@all-phase.com - Bruce Zimmer (Below is his email) .... Thanks Everyone. #formatSearching for disks...doneAVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:       0. c0t0d0 ...

I am rather late on this summary primarily due to finishing up my inventory. I asked the following:> Before I go about reinventing the wheel I wanted some input from the> group. I have a rather agressive deadline for doing system inventories on> a large number of Unix servers and ...

Hi, thanks to all who replyed most said use the -x option.<p>Thanks to Charles Donelle for suggesting a grep of the disk I wanted.<p>Try iostat -xnp |grep c1t5d3<p>Dave Martini<p>

Thanks to all who responded to the original posting of:"I am trying to get the SS5 to pass an analog audio signal straight thru to the internal speaker. Does anyone have any sugesstions to accomplish this?"The message that worked the best was by, Richard Skelton ...

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I am sorry about this but the problem would have been solved if I hadRTFM more carefully. The problem is caused by space characters in theline. The only allowd character should be TABs. The answer of Casper Diksays it ...

Thanks to everyone (listed below) for the responses. The responses werecategorized around a perl script, Big Brother, wget (a gnu utility), nocol,RedAlert, pping, expect. I will try out wget and pping for their simplicity.It became quickly apparent that I need to spend the time to learn ...

     My thanks to:          Ian TCollins     Andrew Ho                    Ian responded with ...